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Ana Campoy

April 25, 2017
Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the US-Mexico border has emerged as a key topic in contentious federal budget negotiations in the US Congress. The US president had initially insisted that the spending bill, which must be passed by the end of April 28 to avoid a government shutdown, include funding...

April 18, 2017
In just a couple of months, US president Donald Trump has slashed the workload of border patrol agents. March had the smallest number of border apprehensions since 1999, according to publicly available records. That’s probably fewer than at any time since the 1970s, according the Washington Office on Latin America,...

April 18, 2017
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In just a couple of months, US president Donald Trump has slashed the workload of border patrol agents. March had the smallest number of border apprehensions since 1999, according to publicly available records. That’s probably fewer than at any time since the 1970s, according the Washington Office on Latin America,...

April 11, 2017
To hear it from Donald Trump and other immigration hardliners, the US government has been skirting its responsibility to enforce immigration laws for years. In a memo issued April 11, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered federal prosecutors to crack down on undocumented immigrants who commit crimes by prioritizing their cases...

March 23, 2017
International organizations are having trouble getting on US secretary of state Rex Tillerson’s schedule. The State Department ditched a hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on March 21, citing legal reasons. A day before, the agency said Tillerson would not be attending a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)...

March 16, 2017
Derrick Watson, a judge for the District Court for the District of Hawaii, issued a temporary restraining order on March 15 barring the Trump administration from blocking the U.S. entry of travelers from six majority-Muslim countries. Watson’s order, which applies nationwide, hit just a few hours before the planned implementation...

March 9, 2017
President Donald Trump has promised to bulk up his country’s border defenses by building a wall and adding thousands of new border patrol agents, but he might not need to: The number of immigrants illegally entering the US appears to have dropped dramatically during his first month in office. Border...

March 1, 2017
US president Donald Trump is creating a new government office with the very specific purpose of serving American victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. It will be called VOICE—Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement—and sit under the US Department of Homeland Security, Trump said during his first address to Congress....

January 26, 2017
On Jan. 25, representatives of Mexico’s government arrived in Washington to meet with White House officials. The purpose: preliminary discussions ahead of talks between Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and new US president Donald Trump, who are scheduled to meet on Jan. 31 to discuss NAFTA, immigration, and border security....

January 11, 2017
Donald Trump’s nominee to head the US Department of Homeland Security, John Kelly, is not as high on a border wall as his prospective boss. “A physical barrier in and on of itself will not do the job,” Kelly said during a senate hearing Nov. 10 as part of his...